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YOU ARE GOD’S SPECIAL TREASURE
I was amazed again this morning as I read Deuteronomy 7:6 where God describes who He intends His people to be—and this promise continues to His blood-bought people today: “For thou art an HOLY PEOPLE unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a SPECIAL PEOPLE unto himself, ABOVE ALL PEOPLE that are upon the face of the earth.”That is amazing, isn’t it? This is God’s heart for His people. What does it mean?
Some people think that to be holy we have to be religious, but that is not the meaning of holy. It means “set-apartness, un-commonness, un-worldliness.” It is being set apart from the secular unto God. The word special means that “we are God’s possession, His valued property, a special treasure to Him.” And He wants us to be “above all” other people on the face on the earth.
That’s why God told them in the previous verses to TOTALLY DESTROY THE CANAANITE CULTER! Yes, that was the heading at the beginning of this chapter in my Bible. I was certainly arrested when I read that!
Verses 2- 5: “Thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, not show mercy unto them . . . ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.” And then it says: FOR YOU ARE AN HOLY PEOPLE . . . “
Dear mothers, are we seeking to be set-apart families unto God? Anything less is not God’s will. I notice that many Christians today do not want to be set apart. They want to know they are born again but they want to still look like the world around them. They want to be right on the fence, saying with their lifestyle, “Yes, I love God with all my heart, but I don’t want to look different from the world. That would be too embarrassing. I want dress just like the world dresses and fit in as much as possible with their lifestyle ,so I don’t look too different.”
But this is the opposite to God’s plan. Dear mother, are you teaching your children God’s plan for them? How He wants them to live? Do they know that they are God’s holy people, set apart for Him and His destiny? Knowing their purpose will make a huge difference to their lives.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
Check out these Scriptures. God did not give this message once to His people but many times:
Exodus 19:5, 6; Leviticus 11:44, 45; 20:24-26; Deuteronomy 7:6; 14:2; 26:18, 19, 1 Kings 8:58; Romans 12:1, 2; Hebrews 12:14; 1 Peter1:14-16; 2:9; and 1 John 2;15-17.
